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10/20   Yahoo! News - David Blaine Being Tested at Hospital
        http://csua.org/u/4qo
        Why is he called a magician when all he does is plain stunts?
        \_ he is a magician who uses his stunts to get notoriety
        \_ Dood: Itz Street Magic. What up?
        \_ How does he do the self levitation trick? Is that just by using
           an upward momentum or some device is his shoes?
                \_ The Masked Magician guy revealed this on one of his Fox
                   specials. It's totally lame. It's part camera tricks, part
                   editing, and all he really does is get on his tippy toes.
                   \_ What?  You mean magic isn't real?  You mean I'll never
                      learn to defy physics?
                        \_ What I'm saying, smartass, is that it would have
                           actually been cool if he did make some trick device
                           hidden in his shoe. But all the entire trick is
                           just lame camera tricks. Here's an URL showing just
                           how lame it is:
                                http://www.magiclearn.50megs.com/photo2.html
                           \_ Oooooh, anti-gravity shoes!  yeah!  that would
                              be cool.  If I built some AG shoes I'd use them
                              in my magic act too.
                           just lame camera tricks.
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Different Views Showing an exposed view and two audience views before and during the levitation. Performance Animation This is what it should look like if done right. He has made the illusion popular, once again, with his recent television special, David Blaine: Street Magic. But, we never really get to see Blaine performing the Balducci Levitation. We watch several times as Blaine performs it for others, but we never get to see the Balducci Levitation for ourselves. For the television special, Blaine performed the Balducci levitation in front of several hundred different groups of people, and the camera was angled only to catch their reactions. The method he used for this is the Balducci method, described above. While taping all the hundreds of performances, the producers keyed in on the audience members with the most visual reaction. After the Balducci levitation, the producers of the show had these same people stand by for another taping of the illusion, this time the camera would shoot from behind the audience members to get a clear view of Blaine in action. The audience members were told that this second performance was to show them how magicians could use wires to levitate. A small harness and rig just out of camera view was set up and Blaine performed a standard wire-suspension. What Blaine did was a camera trick - known as a post-production edit. The audience at home watched the second wire suspension levitation performance, with the audience reaction of the Balducci levitation edited in. It was said, in the television special, that no strings or wires were used to perform Blaines levitation and there are no camera tricks. This is a lie, his show is basically based on camera tricks, editing and production. DAVID BLAIN IS A LUCKY, AMATEUR MAGICIAN THAT WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME! If you want to see that, I suggest you enjoy a movie like Star Wars. Blain, can not perform 80 of his effects, on either special, live. Besides, every trick he performes is not his and has been created by someone else, which he also performs poorly as well. He was never a street magician or even a magician before these shows, just some pathetic kid. If hes so good, he should of made himself look better in this photo!